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If you believe Islamic leaders in America are the moral voice of the oppressed, I’ve got $250 million in stolen lunch money to sell you—plus another $7.2 million that vanished into the back rooms of CAIR. The same religion that calls for amputating thieves’ hands somehow keeps producing million-dollar scandals from the very people preaching virtue. Coincidence? Or is this Sharia with a tax ID number?

Because if you steal a goat in Islamic law, your hand gets chopped off. But if you steal enough cash to buy a mansion in Medina and slap “nonprofit” on your LinkedIn bio? You’re celebrated. You’re funded. You’re probably on MSNBC next week whining about Islamophobia while your LLC is registered to the address of a fake school cafeteria.

This isn’t satire. This is the real state of “justice” in America’s favorite protected class.

Feeding Our Future: Stealing from Hungry Children

It began with a noble mission: to provide food to low-income children in Minnesota during the pandemic. It ended with nearly $250 million in federal funds funneled into fake schools, shell companies, luxury cars, and overseas wires, with 47 people indicted, the majority of them Somali Muslims. Not for jaywalking. For one of the largest COVID-era fraud schemes in the United States.

Their fake nonprofit was called Feeding Our Future, a name so Orwellian, you’d think CAIR’s PR team came up with it. They submitted claims for millions of nonexistent meals, using made-up children, fake attendance rosters, and “community centers” that didn’t exist. In one case, a so-called school reported feeding 5,000 kids a day… from a second-floor apartment. Another said it served thousands out of a small house with no kitchen. USDA bought it. The FBI didn’t.

The Department of Justice outlined the charges: wire fraud, conspiracy, money laundering, and bribery. Defendants bought Porsches, Teslas, $1 million homes, gold, and property in Kenya and Turkey. Others moved money into overseas accounts. One even attempted to flee the country with a suitcase full of cash. You can’t make this up.

And these weren’t nobodies. Let’s meet a few of the “servants of Allah” who helped pull off this spiritual Ponzi scheme:

These weren’t fringe criminals. These were trusted leaders, endorsed by mosques, praised by politicians, and given access to children and tax dollars in the name of “service.”

Where was the outrage from Islamic leaders? From the imams? From CAIR? Silent. Not a single press conference. Not a single khutbah denouncing the theft of taxpayer money meant for starving children. Why would they speak out? Most of the defendants were “respected members of the community.” You know—the kind that gets invited to interfaith panels and writes op-eds about tolerance.

This wasn’t a blip. It was organized, deliberate, and spread across multiple Muslim-led nonprofits, fake contractors, and community leaders. Even worse? Nobody’s asking where all the money went. Because if you think every last dollar went to Gucci bags and Escalades, you’ve never tracked a wire transfer to Mogadishu.

So here’s the uncomfortable question: did any of that $250 million find its way into overseas Islamic charities? Mosques? Political campaigns? Recruitment centers? Or did the DOJ stop digging as soon as the handcuffs came out?

You’d think stealing from hungry children would trigger more than 47 indictments. But when religion enters the picture—and that religion is Islam—there’s a magic shield. Suddenly, justice needs “cultural sensitivity.”

CAIR’s $7.2 Million “Oops”

While Feeding Our Future was looting lunch money for kids, another trusted Islamic nonprofit was doing some creative accounting of its own. According to a detailed complaint filed by the Intelligent Advocacy Network, the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) California chapter managed to “misplace” over $7.2 million in federal taxpayer funds. Not from bake sales or mosque donations—federal grants. As in, your money.

The grant was awarded under the Department of Justice’s Recognition & Accreditation Program, supposedly to help with immigrant resettlement services. Instead, CAIR-California reportedly sent the money down a black hole of shell chapters, false transfers, and backdoor bookkeeping—most notably to CAIR–Greater Los Angeles, an entity that isn’t even registered as a nonprofit.

You read that right. A DOJ-recognized organization transferred millions of dollars to a branch that isn’t authorized to receive or manage federal grants. Then that chapter quietly sub-granted the money to other CAIR branches—San Diego, San Francisco, Sacramento—none of which are required to disclose a single dime of spending to the public. In other words: CAIR paid itself, across state lines, with no financial transparency and no oversight.

The complaint points out the obvious:

“These sub-grants from CAIR-CA to CAIR chapters raise serious legal concerns about whether CAIR simply shifted more money to itself.”
—Intelligent Advocacy Network, May 2024

It gets better. The group behind the complaint isn’t some right-wing think tank. It’s led by Daniel Piedra, a veteran attorney who’s worked on DOJ-related oversight issues for years. Their demand? A full forensic audit, revocation of CAIR’s DOJ accreditation, and criminal inquiry into where that $7 million actually went.

Here’s where it ties back to the big picture: CAIR has already been named by the U.S. government as an unindicted co-conspirator in a Hamas-funding case (Holy Land Foundation, 2008). Several CAIR founders and officials were tied to Hamas directly. Yet they continue to operate with federal blessing and, now, federal funding.

So what did CAIR spend this $7.2 million on? Did it go to legal aid for migrants? Rent assistance? Or something a little more… ideological? Activist training? Lawsuits against “Islamophobia”? Or let’s go deeper: did any of it fund overseas partners, affiliated mosques, or groups tied to foreign political movements?

We don’t know. And that’s the point.

Because if your name is CAIR and your tax status says “nonprofit,” you can play shell games with taxpayer cash, and no one blinks. Not the DOJ. Not the White House. Not even the journalists who foam at the mouth over Christian nonprofits buying a Chick-fil-A sandwich.

$7.2 million. No records. No accountability. No outrage.

But if you criticize CAIR? Prepare for the press release, the lawsuit threat, and the teary lecture about how you’re “endangering Muslim lives.” You know who else endangered lives? Those who enriched themselves by stealing money meant for the poor.

Sharia Justice vs. Sharia Politics

Let’s review the rules—straight from the Quran, not Fox News:

“As to the thief, male or female, cut off their hands: a punishment by way of an example, from Allah.”
Quran 5:38

In the Sharia manual Reliance of the Traveller, section o14, theft is punishable by amputation of the right hand, assuming the item stolen exceeds the value of a quarter dinar. That’s around $4.50 in today’s money.

So, if you swipe a bicycle or a goat? Hand’s gone. But if you loot $250 million from federal food programs? Or divert $7.2 million in taxpayer cash through shady nonprofit grants? Apparently, Sharia justice takes a coffee break. No blades. No outcry. Just more award nominations and “community hero” plaques from city councils afraid to get canceled.

The same leaders who quote Quran verses about justice and fairness are dead silent when one of their own embezzles money. The same groups that organize protests over every perceived insult to Islam can’t muster a single public statement when children are robbed of their meals by their own “brothers in faith.”

It’s selective outrage, and it’s by design.

Because in today’s landscape, Sharia is a political tool. A shield when criticism arises. A sword when offense is needed. And a disappearing act when justice becomes inconvenient.

CAIR, Feeding Our Future, and their apologists don’t fear accountability. They count on your silence. They bet that politicians won’t say anything, journalists won’t investigate, and Muslim community leaders will keep quoting hadith about mercy, while their nonprofits quietly funnel American dollars to causes that have nothing to do with justice and everything to do with control.

You’re not seeing moral failure. You’re seeing moral strategy. And it’s working.

Their Hand Should Be Gone, But Your Wallet Is Instead

We’re told Islam is a religion of justice. That it stands for the poor, the hungry, the oppressed. That Muslims in America are simply trying to build a better life. But somehow, the better life keeps getting funded by your tax dollars, and built on stolen money meant for starving children and vulnerable immigrants.

The Quran instructs that the hand of the thief should be cut off. The Sharia manual lays it out with clinical precision; hand, wrist, value threshold, all of it. But apparently, when the money belongs to kafirs, the rules take a vacation. When the thief is a well-dressed imam, a respected nonprofit director, or a Muslim “community leader”? There’s no blade. There’s no court. There’s not even a slap on the wrist.

Instead, there’s a grant renewal. A seat on a city board. A glowing feature in The New York Times about cultural resilience.

CAIR “lost” $7.2 million, and the DOJ shrugs. Feeding Our Future stole $250 million, and some people still wonder if this was just a paperwork mix-up. Meanwhile, if you question any of it, you’re labeled an Islamophobe.

This isn’t about religion. It’s about power without accountability, cloaked in faith, reinforced by fear, and funded by you.

If the West had any backbone, these thieves would be treated exactly the way their own books prescribe. But instead of chopped hands, we get hollow headlines. Instead of justice, we get press releases. Instead of reform, we get reinforcement.

Sharia’s justice is swift, unless the stolen cash came from an infidel.

Then it’s just… networking.